Many thanks to you both, exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for
<nod> That was the lens I was seeing the original question through - history-of-the-neoPagan-movement geek that I am, and with possibly-related convos w/r/t Celtic paths fresh in my mind (when I mentioned other cultural paganisms having a similar divide between the Romantic and scholarly-historic conceptions, Egyptiana was what I particularly had in mind).
Sunflower